DOZERDUST MARCHES IN SNOOPER

Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 12, 28 August 1943, Page 5

DOZERDUST MARCHES IN SNOOPER

# hello everyone, glad to meet you. my name la SNOOPER, and 1 propose staying with you for the duration, there is something 1 like about? ou i have heard you described as the ” biggest bloody scroungers on the island , which means that we have a lot in common, i scrounge too, as you will learn, in fact 9 1 toyed with the idea of attaching myself to the ASC, but i think i have made the best choice. ♦ ♦ ♦ having more or lees marched myself in, i had better tell you something of my appear-

ance, as you will observe from the excellent sketch of me made by sgt. lipanovic, i am a chubby little fellow , with a cheerful complextion and gen - lai manner. It. is true that my ears are large, that my. eyes protude and that my nose suggest e....we11, i wont prejudice you in any way.' i shall finish my per - sonal history with a reference to my background, since i know that n.z’ere are very keen on that in view of their grandparents coming from tjhat good old english and Scottish stock ( like you i cant stand people who sprang from domestics, farm labourerd and the like ). ♦ * ♦ my name is fairly well known, you will find it in the OXFORD DICTIONARY , not in the main body of the work, of course, but in the ADDENDA which is the place where recent notabilities are Registered. people who are not regarded very highly, but who cannot be ignored, the OXFORD is frightfully ”old school tieish and all that $ i am described as " one who pries into what one is not concerned with ” and it adds, as. an after thought ” a sneak-thief ’’....just like the OXFORD, suggests, i have a touch of the domestic in my blood, you know, he is not ‘of ” our „•-?-* * * talking of class reminds mo tyatallion church parade i once -peeled at. the c«o. had handed over to the padre who asked :- hats off, and repeat the LORDS PRAYER, the lads mumbled it, as they usually do. this was no good to the o.o* he interrupted the petition in this fashion:-" when you are told to repeat the LORD’S PRAYER it’s an order and yo-i bloody well have to do it 2 bet that woke the LORD up. another good story with which i must finish is of an officer

with one hand in his pocket scratching vigorously, strolled up to sgts. mcrae and ch-

arleton who were superintending a machine* * * * the officer looked on for a moment & then said, as he continued scratching!-" a few more levers on that and the driver would be kept busy ? ” yes ” replied mac, ” he wouldn’t be able to have a hand in his pocket scratching his --Ils would het2 out of the pockot shot the hand, he didnot speak to mac again. ♦ * * well, this is too 10ng.....i'1l be watching you.